Daily Bafflements

• As if being known for inventing the Twitter hashtag isn’t enough of a sign that you’re an irritating schmuck, writing about how you came to non-monogamy by going to Burning Man ought to do the trick. Chris Messina, #hashtag inventor, is here to explain that not only is “non-monogamy . . . a bicycle for our hearts,” it also ought to be one way for Silicon Valley to begin “disrupting” relationships. Tragically, he’s not the first to make this point.

• A startup with no name, no known funders, and a little more than a mission statement on Medium seeks to reinvent news. After all, those that don’t [cue ominous music] will die. Of course, nearly everyone who has started out with this ambition claim has either: 1.) gone bankrupt; or 2.) trashed their news team for some ambitious turn to “video.” But, hey—details!

• “Governments have begun to offer friendlier and more accessible iterations of their space programs,” Talia Lavin explains in the latestBaffler. Well, one of them, Rosetta, is coming to a close, and even has a cutesy YouTube video to announce it.